Scrobbesburh
Old English
proper noun
Definitions
- Shrewsbury
Etymology
Compound from Old English *sċrob (shrub, scrub) + Old English burh (fortified place, fort, town).
Origin
Old English
burh
Gloss
fortified place, fort, town
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
町
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -boro English
- -borough English
- -burgh English
- Birk English
- Brough English
- bur- English
- *burgz Proto-Germanic
- *sċrob Old English
- Ciricburh Old English
- burh Old English
- burhbot Old English
- burhleod Old English
- burhleoda Old English
- inburh Old English
- borowe Middle English
- borwe Middle English
- *burg gmw-pro